as a christmas presents get on a wrap has santa's been reading the wish lists of european leaders we find out. a man reported missing months ago after losing his british citizenship shows up in the u.s. courts charged with terrorism in a suspected case of american extraordinary rendition. and more violence is feared in egypt and the opposition val's they'll not stop fighting against the new pro islamist constitution that's passed the referendum.

thanks for joining me on this holiday evening i'm lucy catherine when you're watching r t well santa has been busy doing the rounds and hopefully you'll be getting what you want for christmas although there's been more window shopping than people actually parting with their hard earned cash this time around now even the vat and catholic church has tightened its belt with the pope holding a more spartan mass in the st peter's basilica costs for this year's more frugal nativities c.n.n. were mostly picked up by donors as for elsewhere around europe peter all over has been looking at whether the wish lists of those in charge could be just too much for santa as olds to help with. it's a time of goodwill and cheer and giving and for one particularly jolly gent it's busiest time of the year but santa has taken a little bit of time out from clear delivering presents to the boys and girls to

join me here in central berlin high something. well you have not come on the slate that i say no no it's just a second where it's more comfortable you know keeping within the twenty first century there now i understand you've got some letters from the boys and girls and you're going to share with us something here ok all right now this one has come from a little boy in greece he says exactly what he wants for christmas and for twenty thirty. dear santa for christmas i would really like a fiscal policy which would see my country's debt be reducing one hundred twenty four percent of our annual output from twenty twenty i know that this is a big ask but it will stop the international monetary fund getting even more annoyed with us although we didn't make the whole thirty billion euros worth of savings we promised just recently we did try very hard. dimitri said marise.

well who else has been writing to you oh well this one has come from somebody not too far away from where we are right now this is come from a little girl and burn lynn with her christmas wishes for twenty thirty dear santa thank you for the positive economic growth i asked for last year it has been very helpful this year it would be great if we could have more of the same just is there a way we can give less of our money away to the eurozone countries all the best angle american p.s. i also want to win the general election next year thank you. of course you get letters from little boys and girls from all over the world these drones just from here in europe produce this from us ones come from from paris from a little boy who says this well all of his famous friends keep running off and leaving him. it would be great if this year knew more of our super rich followed jerod deputy you and left france we really need their seventy five percent

income taxes if we are to stay with the likes of angola and i'll find ourselves in the same trouble as demetrius thank you francois hollande oh right with this one comes from a little boy who has been on the naughty list in the past but he insists he's going to be good in the future sounds here's the thing i want to be prime minister again i know there were some problems last time however now i'm ready to step back in and leave this lead to success quite possibly out of the euro sincerely silvio berlusconi will have to wait to see if their christmas wishes come true but santa did you get my letter yes was i on the nice list you're a minority list. peter all of a burley. marty has been tracing the europeans austerity battles all year and will remind you of what we witnessed later this hour.

the festive spirit takes on a whole new meaning for britain's police and hospital staff as christmas revellers down a few too many drinks for some it means spending the holidays in a cell or a hospital ward or to sarah ferguson out amongst the party goers but it's the season to be merry but for some of us perhaps a little to be merry but the christmas spirit once again upon us brings awareness campaigns a warning people to be careful about how much they drink over the holiday period now in the last couple of years we've seen the figures increasing for the number of alcohol related injuries and we continue in the u.k. to pay too high a price for alcohol abuse now every year it's costing the n.h.s. millions of pounds in dealing with the people who are coming three the hospitals and in the build up to christmas that really puts a strain on services such as the police and such as are ambulances now that's

a very sobering thought indeed we've come to the north of england and mucosal to go out on the town the views of a sensitive nature might want to look away now because we've been doing some people getting into the festive spirit to find out whether that going to be drinking responsibly was a typical night so. i'm sorry but if i don't want to read a yeah there's a thing with the underage drinking to fill the young people who drink responsibly you know you know that hello no everyone just gets up. oh boy do you think. it's a stretch if you're getting. yeah. well some and i use i'm not going to. i'm not tonight because of the gordon. drink response report on the order q when you're heard with your school where you

can also. see apart from these guys you will be a prophet of god do what you want just to get more responsible over that you just want your morsel of food and people are ready for the age of twenty five not really both. of the people that we've been speaking to here tonight have told us that the weekend before christmas they have a day nicknamed blackeye friday a reference to the number of fights the breakout had excessive drinking this is why the campaign is a calling only government to really tighten up the policy to make sure that we keep seeing these increases in alcohol abuse in the case for their part the government this year have really tried to target the sale of cheap alcohol campaign is a really calling on people to be very careful about how much they drink over the festive period. you call so there are fears that america's latest terror trial involves another victim of the notorious rendition program now or to have

brought you the story of marty harshly several weeks ago after he went missing in africa having had his british citizenship revoked then out of nowhere he appeared in a new york courthouse an update now from our washington correspondent i have should have. bhakti how she stands accused of providing material support to somali militant group al-shabaab how she was stripped of his british citizenship earlier this summer over accusations of his involvement with islamist extremists at the time he and his family tried to contest that decision they claim that m i five. to label him an islamic extremist if he refused to become an informant for british intelligence and spy on the muslim community shortly after his citizenship was revoked he went missing on the outskirts of mogadishu somalia and one of our reporters broke with his parents several months ago when they had no idea where their son was and they were very worried about him apparently all this time he'd

been in u.s. custody also on trial along with the ha she faces similar charges or two of the men swedish nationalist so all of these men are not u.s. citizens and yet they ended up here this is not the only case in new u.s. courts against alleged terrorists for acts committed overseas in one of the things that many find alarming is how the u.s. finds smuggling foreign nationals in complete secrecy perfectly a lawful often keeping the families of those captured in in the dark for months as far as treating foreign nationals suspected of terrorism the u.s. has a set track record hundreds of people have been through the u.s. prison in guantanamo many of them were subject to torture the chief prosecutor at guantanamo and a george w. bush told me most of them were not terrorists and due to the extraordinary rendition program all kinds of people would end up there from different countries for different reasons stripped of their rights many human rights organizations have

been vocal about a lawful practice is that guantanamo and yet it's still open by the way despite president obama's pledges to close the prison. egypt's our friend the results are due but as the clock ticking towards fresh protests. the opposition rallies continued resistance to the draft no matter what more on that later in the program also for you. who are used to living. now economically disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. blinding voters with vocabulary we look behind the new american political lexicon that how someone text what the parties are really up to that's coming up for you after a short break. what do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll

have or maybe you feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorists. finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection so the t.s.a. agents can put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you call security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion.

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back you're watching our team. or egypt us poised for more tension with the opposition promising to continue the fight against the new constitution if it's passed the official referendum result is due later on tuesday now the declaration was delayed because of fraud investigations and official tallies show over sixty percent of voted yes to the islamist based charter egypt has seen violent unrest in mass to rival rallies and we seem to be expecting both opponents and supporters of the new draft the opposition claims the document undermines democratic reforms and slammed the referendum as fundamentally illegitimate middle east history professor lawrence davison says that they have reason to be worried. i think that the opposition barring democracy differently then the law.

if you look at the mark you see in the way that you can see in the united states. and europe. the constitution to be democracy is typically she writes minority on the other hand not kind of trying to parse judicial guidance she. sort of. unusual or not normal lifestyle it's not going to be something that should realize they're just going to so it's the rights of the minority to get up to worry some of the liberals in it and they have a right to be worried the pentagon is planning to sell a high altitude spy drone to south korea the deal to provide for a global hawk pilotless aircraft still needs approval from congress and could be worth as much as one point two billion dollars now political analyst nile bowie's

says the pending deal could actually escalate the conflict with the neighboring country north korea which steadfastly protects its territory. if congress allows these drones to be sold to south korea what i think will happen is that they will use these drones to monitor the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they can also potentially be used to monitor north koreans and north korea's nuclear facilities however we have to remember that north korea is one of many times but its territorial integrity so i think will happen is if south korean drones for example penetrate north korean airspace this could potentially start a huge conflict and if you look at the results of that latest offering elections the president will let him pay she campaigned on a model of. reaching. into relations with north korea one will get easier in pyongyang but i think what this shows is that by purchasing these drones or having the intention to at least the ruling party doesn't really have any plans to change

its foreign policy trajectory in any need for i don't think north korea will attack anyone unless it's for a book first and if we look at the reports coming out of south korea were south korean scientists that looked at the satellite this morning in orbit around a small function and reports say the machining work done on the galaxy three missile that they watched was for food so i think what the real danger is and it is in north korea pursuing these tests and mistakingly you know having seen debris from on china or for look easy or stuff where you're japan and killing a lot of people and tension. the u.s. is pledging to teach africa how to fight terrorism we report online how it's planning to deploy soldiers to thirty five for going to countries to prepare local troops for any future crises amid a growing threat from extremist groups. and the vatican the vacuum for visitors to keep the masterpieces looking their best way details on how they are keeping

a pristine sistine chapel. well they held peaceful rallies against agreed in the united states but investigators still regarded them as a possible terrorist threat recently released f.b.i. documents show that the bureau conducted surveillance on the occupy wall street movement which began back in september two thousand and eleven even before the movement had spread across the country now the f.b.i. files show that it did acknowledge the peaceful nature of the protests despite that the police were accused by demonstrators of using excessive force to disperse rallies and sit ins in new york and other cities the documents show the agency was aware of an assassination plot against activists due to heavy redactions it's unclear who was behind that meanwhile independent journalist anna lagos miller says the f.b.i. is siding with big businesses. they're using a very broad definition no violence to discuss domestic terrorism because

obviously an act of terrorism is you know doing something that is going to kill a lot of people blowing something up something that's far more are. terrible and life threatening than just a couple of people assembled in civil protest so i think that they really just ran a wave of past ability to get violent and use that to create to manufacture if they're a mistake terrorists because that's really what the f.b.i. has a lot of these terrorism cases you start with muslim and arab communities with the f.b.i. . spying on them a lot of it was really. feeding this information to people who were alleged terrorists but had never done anything and it's that's happening with occupy right now and surveillance was happening the whole time meaning that there were informant planted at the occupy camps both in new york and around the country and the

f.b.i. the department of homeland security were basically in partnership with corporate america they're actually working with corporations and the stock exchange and the financial sector to protect them so it's pretty obvious who gets protected this society in the political sphere it's easy for parties to change the script to suit the scene when supports not going their way but are american voters willing to read between the lines and work out what's really month artie's mario reports. the art of politics is made up of many things. handshakes smiles and a good arsenal of verbal camouflage americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality americans have trouble facing the truth or as the late american comedian george carlin put it euphemistically language that conceals reality poor people used to live in the slums now the economically

disadvantaged occupy substandard housing in the inner cities. and they're her. no they don't have a negative cash flow position. and today america's love affair with semantics has given birth to a new phrase to describe the rich job creators of america basically are on strike increasing taxes on job creators this administration and this president policies are hostile to job creators that are just saying the wealthy who make over two hundred fifty thousand a year if you say a job creator they say well we can't raise their taxes they're the ones or create jobs when in reality when their taxes are higher under bill clinton three times as many jobs are created the propensity to add softer terms to the english lexicon has surged over the decades particularly when it comes to military related language there's a condition in combat most people know about it it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to its absolute peak and

maximum can't take anymore and puts the nervous system has either snapped or is about to snap in the first world war that condition was called show show today this same condition is known as an eight syllable hyphenated furries void of any emotion post-traumatic stress disorder the aftermath of war includes post-traumatic stress disorder for those of you suffering from p.t.s.d. when it comes to a war where you have the most damaging euphemisms like when and so saying innocent civilians were killed in a drone strike you say there was collateral damage collateral that. which is to me the worst it's very you know it's innocent men women children are killed in the collateral damage so that the real estate transaction our soldiers shooting each other has become known as friendly fire kidnapping and transferring terrorist suspect is called extraordinary rendition and the torture america's war prisoners might endure is referred to as enhanced interrogation in most cases these new words

are used by people who try to define an argument or frame it in a way that will support the position that they're advocating and during the last u.s. presidential election a certain demographic of voters became otherwise known as without when from asian voters bother went to twitter at two o'clock today to encourage low information voters think low from asian voters are stupid people but you say low vibration voters because it sounds nice although in their defense it could be people who are just too busy you know their lives their family and their work they don't have time to focus on the election until the very last minute and then they vote based on the hairstyle of the candidate running for president as america's political elites continues creating new vocabulary to soften the hard truth a greater focus could instead be put into asking why so many issues need to be rephrased before being presented to the public george carlin created comedy about the strategy but it was george orwell who first coined a term for it newspeak reporting from new york. r.t.

. time for a look at some other stories making the news this hour. police in bahrain have used tear gas on more anti-government protesters continuing an intense crackdown on public gatherings the demonstrators want the prime minister to quit and for a democratically elected government activists also say leading human rights campaigner saeed yousef will stay in jail for a further fifteen days he was caged for writing about the crackdown on twitter meanwhile the country has just wrapped up a gulf economic and military summit. the school bus has crashed in eastern china killing at least eleven school children their principal was behind the wheel of the vehicle which had plunged into a pall and she was arrested for dangerous driving on suspicion of overloading the bonce the kindergarten will also be closed because it was found to be operating

without a license. the health of venezuelan president hugo chavez has reportedly improved he had caught a respiratory infection after his latest cancer surgery in cuba the country's rising president said on state t.v. that child as is and how started exercising its raise hopes that his january tenth inauguration may still go ahead a few months after his reelection in a tight boat. as we begin to say goodbye to two thousand and twelve are to remembers what the year has brought us today our news teams recall the austerity anger that chokehold across europe. it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going

to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so waiting but also i still stood over some type of square and i just see the camera man behind the camera everybody else around me putting just must be a few for moscow is going to be for your life before i can say anything you get a horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd the shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got

political elements you use the elements and you go on the court force you've got the tragic human stories of people who are driven to desperation and pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihoods just the way over to pay back these massive. people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost of the states the services and then you really get a sense of just how angry how desperate people. get the full of love that's doing to the country and so you just it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the clashes break out. in a few minutes our black tie ball russian style. yeah

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